If this proves to be the game when the taxi for Alan Pardew is called, then West Brom's senior players must share culpability. The Albion manager admitted beforehand that his job security was weak after Gareth Barry, Jonny Evans, Boaz Myhill and Jake Livermore broke a curfew on a team-bonding tri...

West Bromwich Albion's troubled season has been plunged into deeper crisis after four senior players allegedly hijacked a taxi during a drunken night out on the club’s mid-winter training camp in Barcelona.

West Brom captain Jonny Evans and England-capped midfielders Gareth Barry and Jake Livermore were revealed to be among the players who broke a curfew as the club launched an investigation into this week’s ill-fated trip to Spain.